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In article <1a5dkkINNj1h@uwm.edu> anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
>In article <1992Sep27.173842.17544@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> sjg@dogmatix.ph.kcl.ac.uk (Simon Gornall) writes:
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>Outbound	Outbound laptop	Apple ROMs
>Spectre GCR	Atari ST	Apple ROMs
>Amax??		Amiga		Apple ROMs
>Liken		Sun Sparc	emulation no license
>??????		NeXT
>Hydra		ISA card	Apple ROMs
>Cork		Cork desktop	Apple ROMs
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>Please post or mail additions or corrections.   Can any of these
>machines be considered as viable alternatives to actually buying a
>Macintosh?

I think of at least three factors why emulators are useful (at least
the two I know of ).

1) The price. (even more if the alternative system is already owned).
2) If already owning another system - good integration and sharing of
   resources with the already owned system.
3) Saving of the desk space. (I have already three monitors taking my desk
   space entirely and I can't put anything more on it).

The paid price though is usually incompatibility to a degree.
This depends on the emulator.

>  If one already owns one of the above computers, the
>emulation package might be cheaper than buying another computer. 

See point one. In the case of Mac emulator on Amiga it is still cheaper
to buy A500 and Mac emulator than Mac Plus. And it runs faster (graphics)
and have much larger screen.

> Could
>someone buy one of the above systems and hope to use it as a Macintosh
>only?  

Someone on the net quoted that at his University is a Lab equipped entirely
with Amigas with Mac emulators. These are brought up when the Lab opens.
Almost none of the users is counsious that the hardware is Amiga, not the Mac.
They use these Amigas exclusively as Macs.

>Can the above systems do everything that Apple Macintosh
>machines can?  

Not every Apple Macintosh can do everything what Apple Macintosh can.
These do all what Mac Plus does (they take Mac Plus ROMs).

>Also, which companies have been threatened or sued by
>Apple?

I think Nutek and from the noises on the net I suspect that the company
which makes a Mac emulator for Amiga was somehow contacted by Apple too.
Otherwise, users would not have to buy Apple ROMS.
This is just opinion and I could be wrong (someone is welcome to correct
me on this if I am in error)

><-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony

Regards,

Dariusz Bolski

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Dariusz Bolski     Ohio Supercomputer Center, IBM POWER Visualization System
Systems Programmer Ohio State University , Columbus U.S.
                   The Advanced Computing Center For The Arts And Design
e-mail: derek@cgrg.ohio-state.edu  derek@osc.edu